Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed the desire for Israel to become a member of the African Union, in a renewed bid to increase cooperation with the continent, according to Kenyan newspaper Daily Nation. […]
Palestinian Ambassador to the Arab League Diab Al-Louh Tuesday called on the European Union not to support Israel’s attempt to win a seat on the United Nations’ Security Council for 2019-2020. Al-Louh said in a […]
Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah released a statement on Monday expressing his government’s solidarity with the hundreds of Palestinian Bedouins in the community of Jabal al-Baba at risk of forcible displacement by the Israeli government. […]
The Israeli military has designated the head of Lebanon’s resistance and social movement Hezbollah as an assassination target whenever Tel Aviv launches its next war against Lebanon. “It is clear that if he dies, it […]
Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system has become operational aboard a warship for the very first time, in what senior officials have dubbed a “significant milestone.” It comes as tensions continue between Israel and rivals […]
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, revealed on Monday that he is in “quiet talks” with his counterparts from 12 Arab and Muslim countries which do not have diplomatic relations with his country, Quds […]
A senior US diplomat in Tel Aviv said the US administration’s proposed peace plan between Israelis and Palestinian may not necessarily include the two-state solution. “This is an ambitious plan and a feasible one; yet […]
Ongoing illegal Israeli settlement activity highlights the urgency of the publication of a United Nations database of businesses that have enabled or profited from settlements, Human Rights Watch said today. The database will publicly identify […]
Ireland and the Palestinian Authority signed on Tuesday an agreement in which Ireland would provide 1.5 million euros to support Palestinian education. Irish Representative in Ramallah, Jonathan Conlon, and Minister of Education Sabri Saydam signed […]
Moshe Ya’alon, Israeli Defense Minister from 2002 to 2005, said that he is “proud” of being the official that killed the most Palestinians, according to Safa News agency. After characterizing Palestinians and Arabs as “terrorists,” […]
A senior Israeli official yesterday confirmed that Israel has threatened to destroy all Iranian facilities and thwart any Iranian activity within 40 kilometers of the Syrian Golan Heights, Kuwait’s Al-Jarida newspaper reported. The unnamed official […]
The Israeli and US governments are “working feverishly” to block the publication of a United Nations database of companies complicit in West Bank settlements, according to The Associated Press (AP). The UN Human Rights Council […]
Prominent Lebanese actor and playwright Ziad Itani has been arrested for allegedly “collaborating with the Israeli enemy” in plots targeting political leaders in the country. Lebanon’s State Security Forces said on Friday the charges center […]
Israel demolished or seized 17 Palestinian structures in Area C of the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem between November 7 and 20 on grounds of lack of building permits, displacing 49 Palestinians, including 25 […]
Three of the journalists of Sanabel radio station in Al-Khalil (Hebron) were sentenced by the Israeli occupation’s Ofer military court on November 23. Montasser Nassar, 28, and Nidal Amer, 24, were each sentenced to 22 […]
A top Israeli diplomat was rebuked by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday for suggesting that American Jews have a poor commitment to service in the US military. Asked in an English-language television interview about […]
Israeli occupation forces arrested a Palestinian child during raids on various areas in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem yesterday. According to Palestinian sources, Israeli military forces arrested 13-year-old Hossam Zeitoun after raiding his family’s […]
US President Donald Trump has passed Russia some sensitive intelligence information about Israel’s mission in Syria, Huffington Post has reported. Quoting an article in Vanity Fair, it claimed that Trump passed the information to Russian […]
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) released a statement on Saturday strongly condemning Friday’s deadly attack on an Egyptian mosque in the Sinai Peninsula that left 235 people dead. PLO Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi said […]
A German activist was reportedly injured by Israeli forces today, as soldiers suppressed a weekly march in the village of Bil’in, west of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank. Official Palestinian Authority (PA)-owned Wafa […]
Israeli authorities have allocated just 8.5 percent of Jerusalem for Palestinian development, according to a new joint report by Israeli NGOs Ir Amim and Bimkom. Deliberately Planned: A Policy to Thwart Planning in the Palestinian […]
The former Prime Minister of the Netherlands Dries van Agt has said that “Israel – for those who do not know – has a range of nuclear bombs and is the most dangerous country in […]
Palestine’s football team achieved its highest ranking in history Thursday, rising above Israel in the FIFA world rankings for the first time. The head of the Palestinian football association labelled it an “historic achievement” as […]
The US State Department announced that contact between Washington and the Palestinian Authority is continuing despite the department’s decision to close the PLO office. Spokesman Heather Nauert told reporters in a briefing on Tuesday “in […]
Newly released footage shows Israeli police attacking MK Ayman Odeh during a violent home demolition raid in Umm Al-Hiran on January 18, as reported by +972 Magazine. At the time, Israeli authorities claimed that the […]
Three human rights organizations said on Thursday that an Israeli law that allows expropriation of private Palestinian land in the occupied territory violates international law despite justifications by the Israeli attorney general. Adalah – The […]
Representatives from various Palestinian movements agreed to hold presidential and parliamentary elections before the end of 2018, which will fall within the guidelines of the reconciliation pact signed between the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, […]
By Jonathan Cook Can anyone still doubt that access to a relatively free and open internet is rapidly coming to an end in the west? In China and other autocratic regimes, leaders have simply bent […]
Hamas considers new US conditions for the renewal of the PLO license for an office in Washington to be an effort to protect Israel from being held accountable for its crimes. Hamas also called for […]
The Israeli army has taken “disciplinary action” against two commanders involved in the shooting of Palestinian siblings on October 31, which left one man dead and his sister wounded. According to a report in Haaretz, […]
A recent New York Times made many claims about the ‘mass rape’ of Israeli women on October 7. But two leading Palestinian media organizations, The Palestine Chronicle and Friends of Palestine Network, conducted a joint investigation, the outcome of which resulted in the ‘The Black Dress’, a groundbreaking 18-minute documentary looking into allegations and the possible falsification of evidence.
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